Electronics and security

Electronics essentials for IT, basic variable definition, Ohm’s Law, serial and parallel order of resistors, the overview of basic methods for solving linear circuits, voltage divider, security principles for working with electric current. Basic introduction of electric components.

Essentials of technical measurement and data processing

Proposing and preparing measurement. Measurement precision and optimization, processing the measured values. Error or measurement uncertainty.

Sensors and their physical principles, fundamental aspects of data transfer between devices

The principles of physical quantity converter, sensors most frequently used in technical practice, temperature, pressure, current, concentration measurement etc. Contact and contactless sensors, ways of transmitting signal – hardware interface, remote access measurement: Wi-fi, RF, GSM and other ways of transfer.

Microcontrollers

typical architecture and basic components of microcontrollers, memory types, interacting with analogue and digital signals, the low-level C programming of microcontrollers, creating drivers, working with cuts, treating parallel processing, development tools.

Communication protocols and technology

The overview of the most frequently used communication protocols and technology in IoT (e.g. Zigbee, Z-Qave, Bluetooth LE, MQTT, AMQP, COAP). The fundamental principles of the functioning of protocols, typical use cases, programming support for protocol implementation.

IoT Node

IoT Node requirements (energy demands, wire / wireless data transfer, security…), a typical architecture solution of IoT Node, HW requirements.

IoT Node programming

The overview of the most common programming languages for IoT Node programming, essentials of the Python programming language, introducing typical representatives of microcomputers used in hobby assignments as IoT Node, interacting with digital signals, connecting IoT Node with the world around.

IoT communication networks

basic principles of the functioning and limitations of the LoRa, SigFo, IQRD and MESH networks. Use cases for individual networks in practice.

3D print

3D print technology overview, key terminology, print data preparation, filament data and their use, multi-material print, 3D printer calibration.

3D models

The overview of tools for creating 3D models, essential principles of creating 3D models, D3 modelling by means of programming, designing a model for print and advanced slicing.

IoT for hobby vs. industrial use

Industrial use of PLC. Basic approaches in design. Differences in the solution architecture, HW, SW, communication protocols, security etc.